Sleazegrinder (USA)
Long-standing Sleazegrinder readers may remember our affection for scruffy, bubblegummy UK sleaze rockers the Roolettes. Well, forget about ‘em, wipe them from your memory, because the same fellas are back with a rougher sound and a meaner name – Kill Cartel. Their opening salvo is a 6-song assault of high-tensile arena-sleaze, heavy on GN’R style scorch and fist-throwing choruses. The bleary-eyed savagery of “Blood Red” is the clear monster of the bunch, but not to worry, the whole thing snaps at you like an angry dog after the mailman. Welcome back to the jungle, fellas.
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Organ Magazine (UK)
No messing, back to basics mean lean angry low slung urgent fast indie-edged punk rock n’roll, but also heavy enough to satisfy the stomping metalheads. Heard it all before in a good kind of way – would you like that bullet in your head now? Sounds like it’d be a blast to be in this band, kind of get ya rocks off attitude and primal screaming and low slung bass playing and you’ve maybe heard this a million times, but hey sounds like they’d be a blast live, sound like they’d be a blast to be in.
www.organart.demon.co.uk
Bubblegum Slut (UK)
Kill Cartel is the phoenix to form from the ashes of London punkers The Roolettes. Like the name might suggest Jimmy and Ed’s new outfit packs a cutting edge and meaner attitude than the Roolettes upbeat, heavily Ramones-influenced sound ever did, however none of the boys love for a good hook nor bounding energy has been lost. ’Risk The Addiction’ and ’Riot Zone’ thunder along to impatient drumming, shooting tight, buzzing guitarlines in
a clipped, no words wasted style which could make them an intense prospect live.
OX Magazine (Germany)
Over 3 years ago the debut album of The Roolettes was released on the now closed Vinyl Japan label, but what had begun very promising was soon over again, the band was history.
With Kill Cartel, however, some former members of The Roolettes are back with a 4 track demo and nothing has changed in the sound: it is still the delightfully rough, straight and kicking rock sound, everyone who likes the Turbo ACs, Boozed, The Cult and similar border crossers between riffrock and punkrotz will be enthusiatic about this. (7) Joachim Hiller
Beatburger (Spain)
En las Islas Británicas, tomadas todas ellas por sucedáneos de segunda división de Joy Division y Oasis, hay ciertamente muy poco rocanrol. Los colores más horteras del arco iris y los peinados más chungos son el pan de cada día de las nuevas bandas surgidas de la pérfida Albión. ¿Todas? Por suerte, no. Kill Cartel, cuarteto surgido de las cenizas de The Rooletes –que publicaron un único LP tres años atrás- han llegado para demostrar que en UK también hay sitio para la música (realmente) guitarrera.
Autoeditado –próximamente podremos disfrutarlos en formato largo- este EP “Blood Red” es purito punk rock repleto de estribillos que se te quedan en la cabeza, energético, alimenticio, y rebosante de mala leche sonora.
Hellacopters, Gluecifer, Therapy?...son sólo alguna de las bandas que te vienen a la mente escuchando este EP. Y desde luego que no son para nada unas influencias como para avergonzarse, todo lo contrario.
Andrés R. [09-04-2008]
http://www.beatburguer.com/discos/discos.php?dis=0000000803
Renfield Magazine (Germany)
Kill Cartel’s sound is so energetic, imaginative, dynamic and brilliantly played it seems effortless. Melodic and catchy but without adapting random Bad Religion clichés, this is hard rock without being stupid Gluecifer/Hellacopters/Schweinerock copys. This is not rudimentally anything one would generally imagine as British Punkrock. KC somehow manage to circumnavigate all usual clichés which exist in terms of punkrock. This could also be due to the sound and singing, the first is high quality production and the latter is also comfortably different from the usual punkrock context. If there is somebody out there who still remembers the Wombels from southern Germany, then you know more or less what the singer sounds like. Anybody else of the millions of profilezombies should add Kill Cartel to their friends immediately!!! www.renfield.de
New Pollution Magazine (UK)
“I was a deadbeat from the start!” roars out from the speakers in true Rock N’ Roll form as
this two minute opener “Blood Red” soars in to action! There’s elements of 80’s rock that has it’s place locked within the walls of Kill Cartel. Catchy bass lines and amplified guitars hit all the right notes with fist pumping energy.
“Body Blow” is overloaded with dirty bass lines and guitar licks to get you out of your seat and rocking down the front of the show! “You want it! You got it”. Pure Rock n’ Roll injected with Punk attitude creates quite a whirlwind on the senses.
A blistering start to Kill Cartel’s career and hopefully with more to follow shortly.
Warren Smith - Editor
www.myspace.com/newpollutiononline
A Short Fanzine About Rocking (UK)
These guys will go down well with anyone who’s into the kind of shit-kicking punk’n’roll style of bands like The Hellacopters and Backyard Babies, with ’Blood Red’s more melodic edge also bringing to mind Therapy? at their most direct. Classy, assured stuff, I reckon Kill Cartel would be a blast live as well.
www.myspace.com/ashortfanzineaboutrocking
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